RAOC Gazette - page 74
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| Publication date | 1983 |
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| Early date | 1983 |
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Clearly the efficiency of the Branch is at risk. Suggestions to relieve tension have been numerous and include cheerful and imaginative projects such as; organising dog races and stock car races round Morfe House on Wednesdays and after- noon dancing classes. REGIONAL DEPOT HEREFORD. A very successful Ladies Guest Night was held on Friday the 13th May to dine out the OC Major, Bruce Boulton and his wife Maureen. The Com- mander Supply, Lieutenant Colonel Portman bade farewell and presented a miniature Cannon to them on behalf of the officers and staff of the Depot. At the time of writing these notes Major Boulton is still without a posting order—rumour has it that this next appointment could very well be S02 Fire Fighting! The new OC Major Stuart Hodge has quickly settled into the ' hot seat' and can now talk with some authority on such diverse subjects as ECW clothing and chemicals. North East District and 2 Infantry Division ___^_ ^ J ^ ^ ^ n^^^^ v I I t \ I » \ ™ THE RAOC Association recently held a meeting at the Buckles Inn near York. Lieutenant Colonel Rees was very pleased at the turn out and for having the opportunity of meeting so many mem- bers (old and new), including two ATS girls (what is an ATS girl?). I was assured that a very pleasant evening was had by all. Captain Redfem said that it was most encouraging and further events are in the pipeline. Particularly pleasing was the presence of the young soldiers from Kirton Lindsey. The highlight of the month was the visit of Her Majesty The Queen to York. As you can imagine the time leading up to the visit was very hectic with all the officers of the branch working like beavers to co-ordinate the tentage, furniture and other equipment for the visit. We even had Major Millar on the grass measuring the Marquee area out with a ball of string in typical York weather, pouring with rain. I think we had better give our thanks to our civilian staff who also worked very hard during this period. Our intrepid, newly arrived sailor, Major Andrew Byles has survived yet another trauma—this time as Bosun/Crewman of the yacht ' British Soldier' on her final return leg of Exercise Silver Hawk from Boston (USA) to Gosport. One thousand miles out of Boston she lost her rudder and, despite attempts to fish it off the bottom, had to be towed four hundred miles to St John's Newfoundland. He now keeps talking of strange things such as ' The heads' and ' Splicing mainbraces' and complains that his desk is too stable. HEADQUARTERS 15 INFANTRY BRIGADE WE say farewell and all the best to Staff Sergeant Terry Parfitt and Lance Corporal Bob Smith. We welcome into the fold W02 Les Arnold and Lance Corporal Andy Parkes. Les arrives from a more sedate tour at • MOD, and is now enjoying the already obvious challenge as chief office organiser to this busy and still relatively newly formed Brigade Headquarters. Andy misses the rather bagnio type social life of Belize, however he is becoming familiar now to the more down to earth social environment of Thirsk and the surrounding villages. Corporal Kevin Duckham is nicely settled back into the Brigade now his courses run has expired and Private Eddie Burrow has been the most permanent fixture in the building recently as he keeps the G l / 4 wing running smoothly. STORES SECTION ARMY SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL TRANSPORT CONGRATULATIONS go to our storekeepers Mr Mick Gregory and Mr Dick Stephenson for passing their driving test at the first attempt. We say a sad farewell to OC REME Workshop, Major Golding, who has left us to go out into the big outside world after forty years service, we wish him well in his future career. We would like to welcome Lieutenant Colonel Tinsley who has taken over as OC Workshop and wish him well in his new appointment. STORES SECTION 31 COMMAND WORKSHOP WE would like to say farewell to Jack Lemineur, our Senior Storekeeper for many years, on his retirement. Jack look after yourself and enjoy yourself. Welcome to Janet Pittuck and Ken Poskitt. May their stay be a long and happy one. Congratulations to Peter Price on his promotion to senior storekeeper. STORES SECTION 41 COMMAND WORKSHOP WE have said farewell to Captain David Ashworth who has gone to join the mysterious MSU; no doubt he will be back to criticise the layout of the new modular binning—but we will brief the new OC Captain Tony Parry as to where the finger of blame should be pointed. Gerry Herbert our Senior Storekeeper/Shot Steward/ Cartoonist is lying low at the moment after two apt cartoons depicting the baptism under fire of Lieutenant Colonel Bill Mabbett the Workshop Commander. STORES SECTION 38 ENGINEER REGIMENT WORKSHOP THERE have been a number of events and activities since the Section was last mentioned in these pages. On the sporting side we have had considerable success in both soccer and rugby. WOl Noel Barker and Sergeant John Scott achieved success in their respective roles as Regimental Rugby and Workshop Soccer Player/Managers. WOl Barker took the Regimental Rugby Team to the final of the Sapper Cup whilst Sergeant Scott with the help of Corporal Terry Kennedy and Privates McGreavey and Turner took the Workshop soccer team to the final of the Craftsmans Cup. Both teams did very well to reach the finals when one considers that eighty per cent of the Regiment was away in the Falklands and Kenya. Our congratulations go to Corporal Bob Forrest on passing two subjects at EPC level. He is now beavering away on his RPC 1 Course at Blackwown—we wish him well. We have sadly said farewell to WOl (SSM) Noel Barker and Private Andy Smith. Noel leaves us on commissioning to CAD Kineton and Andy leaves us for Colchester. We wish them both well for the future. We welcome back Lance Corporal Mick Saxby who has been away in Kenya for five months sup- porting 11 Field Squadron RE. Finally, we welcome our new WOIC, WOl (SSM) Tony Graves to the Stores Section from Headquarters RAOC in Cyprus. We all hope that you enjoy your stay with us. 1 Aircraft Support Unit SINCE our last contribution there has been a big change round in our three main detachments. Sergeant Flower has been replaced by Sergeant Frame in Belize—he is now overtaking his father at Donnington in the promotion stakes! Sergeant Flower having completed over two years in Belize is congratulated on his recent marriage. They go to 655 Squadron AAC Ballykelly with our best wishes. At 6 MSD BFFI, Corporal Neville Stewart and Private Tony Quinn have been replaced by Corporal Bill Turner and Private Nick Preston both volunteers. The first Lynx is now flying and hopefully the account is to be transferred to the RAF 4/72 VDU system next month, with the assistance of W02 Gordon from Head- quarters DAAC. A similar move is afoot at 3 MSD at RAF Aldergrove under the direction of WOl McPhee and Staff Sergeant Merrils. Corporal McKinnon is now back in Belfast again with his wife Caroline who together with Mrs Lennon can now keep an eye on their Kith and Kin. On the sports front, outstations performances at two recent AAC Centre and Workshop Athletics Meetings were Corporals Cureton and Shore in the long distance events, Private Preston in the sprints and Sergeant Anderson and Private Liggett in the triple jump and high jump. An inspiration for the younger soldiers was provided by the evergreen WOl Sam Bartram and W02 Birchall who churned up the track in the relays, W02 Birchall even won the veterans one hundred metres in a faster time than the open event! In the same week together with Mrs Birchall he battled his way through in typical Geordie fashion to win the nine pin bowling competition which we hold each year at the Mill Arms at Dunbridge near Romsey. This year the event was organised by Lance Corporal John Coulter who had the benefit of Sergeant Bing Crosby assisting as MC for the last time. 61 — |
| Book number | R0406 |